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Cognitive Consistency: Motivational Antecedents and Behavioral presents the behavioral implications of the motivation for consistency. This book discusses the relationship between assumptions and motivation for consistency.
Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the area of study, empirical problems, and theoretical issues. This text then examines the nature of the motivation for consistency. Other chapters consider the effects of the formal aspects of cognitions. This book discusses as well the behavioral implications of consistency-seeking and the development of theories of cognitive consistency. The final chapter deals with the extent to which the motivation for consistency is based upon cognitive or social consideration.
This book is a valuable resource for readers who are interested in attitude formation and change, in particular, and those interested in social psychology and communications, in general. Psychologists, communications specialists, researchers, and theorists working in the scope of the consistency theories will also find this book useful.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
The Current Status of Cognitive Consistency Theories
Early Work on Consistency Theory
Directions Taken by Consistency Theory
Issues Currently Confronting Consistency Theory
The Place of Consistency Theory in the Larger
Psychological Scene
References
Motivation for Consistency
Types of Cognitive Consistency
The Consideration of Motivation in Consistency Theories
A Methodological Problem
Consequences of Making Motivational Assumptions
Cognitive Control of Drive
Summary
References
Motivational Aspects of Attitudinal Elements and Their Place in Cognitive Interaction
A Selected History of "Attitude": From Molar to Atomic
Molar Motivation in Atomic Attitude Theories
Motivation as a Property of Attitudinal Elements
Summary
References
The Psychology of Insufficient Justification: An Analysis of Some Conflicting Data
Effects of Sufficient and Insufficient Reward
Toward a Resolution of Discrepancies: The Conditions
Necessary for the Emergence of Dissonance
References
Some Limits of Dissonance: Toward a Differentiated View of Counter-Attitudinal Performance
Some Suspicions about Suspicion
Counter-Attitudinal Action and Advocacy
Interpreting a Replication and Its Replications
Summary and Conclusions
References
Subjective Acceptance of Verbal Generalizations
Simple Evidence Forms
The First Study
The Second Study
The Third Study
Discussion
References
The Relationships between Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behavior
The Concept of Attitude
The Relationships between Attitude and Other Phenomena
Behavioral Prediction and Measures of Behavior
The Relationship of Attitude and Behavior as Seen in a Multiattitude Object, Multimethod Matrix
Conclusion
References
Task Acceptance Dilemmas: A Site for Research on Cognition
Tasks as a Means to Study Cognition
Conclusion
Linkage between Beliefs and Behavior
Incentive Effects in Attitude Change
Summary
References
Some Conceptual and Empirical Problems of Consistency Models
Origin of Consistency Models
The Consistency Postulate and General Psychology
Formal Problems of Definition and Measurement
The Motivational Problem
The Problem of the Mode of Resolution
The Problem of Synchronization
References
Author Index
Subject Index